Collections Assistant

Joining a skilled and passionate Collections Team at an exciting time, you'll help develop our offer as one of the National Trust's Treasure Houses and continue to deliver excellent conservation work. It's no small task. In fact, it's a big team effort and it's why our Collections Assistants are so important.

You'll be working 22.5 hours  a week, across 3 days on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Interviews will be held at Ham House on Wednesday 15 May .

Please note, the salary advertised is inclusive of an outer London weighting allowance.

Reporting to the Senior Collection & House Officer, you’ll join a passionate and knowledgeable team of four part time Collections Assistants. You’ll be working at part of an ambitious and high performing collections and house team working to understand, interpret and take care of the house and its collection. Ham House is internationally recognised for its superb collection of paintings, furniture and textiles, our work balances managing the care of the house and its collection with ensuring that our visitors can access and engage with Ham and its fascinating stories. 

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As a Collections Assistant, you’ll be working with a great conservation team in an incredible place, helping with the day-to-day cleaning and care of the collections. No detail will go unnoticed, and you’ll keep a keen eye on everything from the environmental conditions in a room, to signs of wear and tear. You’ll keep accurate records too, collecting information during cleaning routines to inform our understanding of the house and collection that we care for.

In this visitor facing role, we’d love you to talk to visitors about the work you’re doing, and the collections we have, sharing tales from the past as well as your personal experience of working here. You'll also be part of the wider team of employees and volunteers, helping to cover a variety of roles within the mansion where necessary.

Please also read the full role profile, attached to this advert.

We'd love to hear from you if you have;

• a team player, but can also work on your own initiative
• well organised and adaptable?  
• customer focused with a positive attitude?  
• willing to learn new skills?  
• good manual dexterity and hand-to-eye skills and ability to work from ladders and tower scaffold 

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Tax-free childcare scheme

• Rental deposit loan scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places

• Independent financial advice

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